Walking the Merri expands on a seven-day performative walk undertaken by Rebecca Mayo and Lesley Harding in March 2013. Following the Merri Creek from its source at Heathcote Junction to its confluence with the Yarra River in Abbotsford, they traced the meanderings and human redirections of this historically significant and contested waterway.

I had the pleasure of joining Rebecca and Lesley on day 4 of the walk, which became a starting-point for a new series of lithographic works. For Trickle, Stream, Creek: Water from Three Merri Creek Sites, I applied different creek water samples onto the lithographic plate – using the lo-shu technique – to produce an image. With the properties of each water sample producing a different effect on the lithographic plate, I was able to map/document the creek in a unique and fascinating way.

14 artists were invited to respond the the quote by Bertholdt Auerbach: “Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life”. The exhibition is accompanied by a short film by Ingrid Wilson, which documents a part of each artists’ printmaking process.

A collaborative project by seven Melbourne-based emerging artists: Luke Beesley, Craig Burgess, Kate Hill, Eugene Howard, Sarah Moore, Anna Topalidou and Nicholas Umek. Together they investigate the evocative theme My River through the presentation of new artworks, a series of public programs and an anthology of writing.

Created in the context of their time, representations of the body – be they anatomical medical images or glossy fashion figures – disclose prevailing culture, religion, science and technology. Contradictions abound through the dissection and grafting of these sources.

Recycled images, words and fragments from dated and discarded texts of both scientific and religious origin – that once promised to explain our world – create an other account of life and the origin of our cosmos.

Tiny landscapes based on details of igneous rock found in Tasmania’s Cradle Mountain region. The work is interested in cosmology and cosmogony and the mutuality of our elemental origins, of which rock – the earth’s earliest and most rudimentary solid matter – holds intimate knowledge.